90-minute documentary screening
Thursday, August 15 - 6 p.m. ANCIZAN Cultural Center
The documentary film aims to pay tribute to the men, women and children who climbed them by the hundreds of thousands, through an aesthetic and poetic narrative that is above all memorial and educational, with the aim of denouncing the hatred that produced this suffering and passing on to younger generations the responsibility of ensuring that it does not happen again.
A 90-minute documentary film that uses historical facts from personal and family histories to illustrate the "History" of these paths to freedom.
The Pyrenees are criss-crossed by numerous arduous paths that have witnessed countless exiles, hunts and suffering. And always, those who crossed the passes, in one direction or another, dreamed of seeing freedom at the end of these paths...
The first part features the testimonies of deportees who passed through the valley, a Jewish family who took refuge in Arreau, and a mother and daughter who acted as smugglers.
The second part recounts the life of deportees in the camps through their stories, poems, drawings and paintings.
Association cultuQEVE